Permaculture Design Weekend

Design a part on the beautiful land of Gaia Ashram following the permaculture principles.

theory, active design experience, and applied permaculture practice

This 3-day Permaculture Design Weekend Course will take place June 8-10, at Gaia Ashram in Nong Khai, Thailand. We will combine theory, active design experience, and applied permaculture practice. It is a great opportunity for everyone who wants to gain more design experience that follows the permaculture principles. We will design a part on the beautiful land of Gaia Ashram. You are welcome to contribute and bring your knowledge to action right away. We want to increase your insights about permaculture design and empower and motivate you to design your own project.

Price: Price: 4,000THB regular price including food and accommodation. We offer a few scholarships for youth and people with low income. Just drop us a message!

What is permaculture?

Permaculture is a creative design process based on whole-systems thinking. It integrates land, resources, people and the environment through mutually beneficial synergies – imitating the no waste, closed loop systems seen in diverse natural systems.

The only limit is the imagination of the designer. 

— Bill Mollison

What is the Permaculture Weekend Course about?

This course imparts the basics of permaculture design. Using a part of Gaia Ashram's land the participants will learn how to turn needs, values, and the conditions of the land into design and planning of a land. Doing this, we will talk about:

Introduction to permaculture

Analysis of expectations and possibilities

How to use natural eco-systems as models

Design of a plot of land

Step by step from design to reality

Trainer:Lars Blume, practiced permaculture for the very first time in Australia and New Zealand before doing his Permaculture Design Course at the Panya Project in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Lars focus is on appropriate technologies, renewable energy, and water.

Co-trainer:Karla Franielczyk, is a certified permaculture designer. Her main area of interests are natural building, food production and social permaculture.

Where is Gaia Ashram?

Gaia Ashram is a community-based education center on Permaculture, Deep Ecology, Ecovillage Design Education and other sustainable living practices and is located in northeastern Thailand (1,5h from Vientiane), in between Nong Khai and Udon Thani.